Resilient vehicle-wheel.



G. J. MAIQINGS.

RESILIENT VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 16, 1912.

1,084,648. Patented Jan.20,1914.

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CHARLES J'. MALINGS, 0F EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RESILIENT VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 20, 1914.

Application filed November 18, 1912. Serial No. 731,921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. MALINGS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inResilient Vehicle-VVheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invent-ion relates to improvements in vehicle wheels, the primaryobject of the invention being to provide a generally improved resilientor spring wheel for use in connection with various forms of vehicles,the present embodiment being particularly designed and adapted for useas a wheel for motor trucks, automobiles, and other selfpropelledvehicles.

A further object is to improve upon the construction OI the resilientvehicle wheel disclosed and claimed in Patent No. 871,351, issued to meNovember 19th, 1907, in which a series of telescoping spring resistedspoke members are pivotally connected to the hub and felly portions ofthe wheel.

A still further object is to provide an improved driving hub forcarrying and supporting the pivotally mounted inner or hub members ofthe telescoping spring resisted spokes and for bracing the latter asagainst lateral or circumferential disarrangement under the varyingexigencies of actual service.

A still further object is to provide improvedmountings and connectionsbetween the spring resisted telescoping spoke members and the hub andfelly members, and also provide means for cushioning and limiting thecircumferential movements between the driving hub and pivotally mountedspring resisted spoke members, whereby to take up and cushion therelative circumferential movements between the hub and felly members ofthe wheel during operation.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consistsin the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts,hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in theaccompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appendedclaims.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure1, is a side elevation of a wheel constructed in accordance with myinvention, certain parts being broken away and shown in section for thepurpose of clearer illustration of the parts.

hub portion of the main hub 1, and connected to the latter by means of aplurality of bearing bolts 3.

The wheel felly 4:, is provided about its inner periphery with aplurality of inwardly extending spoke bearing lugs P,

said bearing lugs 4 being arranged in pairs and preferably formedintegral with the wheel felly ,4, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2,ofithe drawings.

The wheel spokes comprise a plurality of telescoping spring resistedspoke members 5, and 6, the members 5, adjacent to the hub beingprovided with bearing heads 5*, disposed between the main hub 1, and hubring member 2, and mounted upon the bearing bolts 3, connecting said hubmembers 1 and 2. The main spoke members 6, are preferably of tubularform and are adapted to receive and take over the outer ends of thespoke members 5, and also form a housing to receive the cushioningsprings 7, interposed between the ends of the spoke members 5, and thebase or outer ends of the main spoke members 6, said main spoke membersterminating at their outer ends in bearing heads 6*, interposed betweenthe bearing lugs 41?, and connected to the latter by means of pivotbolts 8.

The wheel felly 4, may be of any suitable and convenient form, and isprovided, in the present instance, with a channeled wheel rim 9,carrying a rubber or cushion tire 10.

As a means for bracing or reinforcing the wheel as against lateral andcircumferential stresses as well as limiting the circumferentialmovements of the hub and felly members relative to each other while thewheel is in service, the main hub member 1, is provided with the drivingor connecting arms l said arms terminating in bearing heads 1*, thelatter being disposed between theouter spoke member 6, as shown mostclearly in Fig. 2, of the drawings, and provided with stop disks 11,arranged in alinement with adjacent bearing lugs 4, at one,

side of the wheel folly and being adapted to strike or abut against saidbearing lugs in case of a very extended circumferential movement betweenthe hub and felly members or in case of the breakage of the springtension or connecting members hereinafter described.

As a means for resiliently connecting the outer ends of the driving orconnecting arms 1, to the outer or felly portions of the wheel, thebearing heads 1", are provided with bearing bolts 12, said bolts 12,carrying the stop disks 11, and being provided with superposedoppositely extending bearing stud pins or stub arms 13, the latter beingconnected to oppositely extending spring links 14, said spring links 14,being connected, in the present instance, to said intermediate spokebearing lugs by means of ex tended portions 8% of the connecting pivotbolts 8, as shown in detail at the left hand side of Fig. 2 of thedrawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings the operation and advantages of my invention willbe readily understood.

Having thus described one of the embodiments of my invention, what Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

l. A resilient vehicle wheel, comprising (topics of this patent may beobtained for hub, hub ring and felly members, spring resistedtelescoping spoke members pivotally connected to said hub, hub ring andfelly members, connecting arms extending from said hub member andterminating near said felly member, stop members for limiting thecircumferential movements of said hub and telly members relative to eachother, and circumferentially arranged spring link members pivotallyconnected to said connecting arms and said felly member. 7

2. In a resilient vehicle Wheel, the combination with a felly memberprovided with spoke bearing lugs, a plurality of spoke members, pivotbolts connecting the latter to said bearing lugs some of said boltsprojecting at the sides of said lugs, and a hub member pivotallyconnected to said spoke members and provided with radially extendingconnecting arms terminating between certain of said spoke members; of aplurality of circumferentially extending spring link members connectedto the outer ends of said connecting arms and said projecting pivotbolts.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES J. MALINGS. Witnesses:

EMILY L. ALDRICH, EDWARD L. SHAW.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

